Madison Theater
300 Genesee Street,
Rochester,
NY
14611
300 Genesee Street,
Rochester,
NY
14611
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As of 2016 the building still stands, apparently converted into apartments.
The Madison had a Wurlitzer pipe organ, their opus 1470, II/7 style E-X, meaning there were chambers on either side of the screen for the pipes and effects. The organ, of course, is long gone, reportedly destroyed.
The Madison was a Schine neighborhood theater that showed second-run features. It was on Genesee Street along the western end of the Parsells trolley line. It served the residents of the city’s 19th Ward, a streetcar suburb that was developed around the turn of the twentieth century. My brother took me there in the early 50s. It’s where I saw “The Wizard Of Oz” for the first time.